Three days later, in the northwest corner of Dongshi, in front of Chunming Gate.

Because the criminal law has followed the principle of "prudent punishment and less killing" since the founding of Daning, it has not been a long time since I saw the killing on the street, and I didn't come to occupy a seat earlier.

What's more, this time it is not an ordinary prisoner who will be executed, but Liu Ruren of the Lu Wangfu, who had a good reputation before, and to this day, the shed built by Liu Ruren is still there, and he will be executed in a blink of an eye, or the torture of car splitting.

Ordinary people have heard of Liu Ruren's crimes, but the version has changed slightly, it turns out that Liu Ruren is not surnamed Liu at all, it turns out that Liu Ruren is a thief, and she has been thinking about avenging her father, and she really poisoned the concubine Niangniang, even His Majesty the Emperor was almost poisoned by her, and she is really ruthless.

Before noon, Chunming Street was crowded with people who came to see the execution of the anti-thieves.

Most of them carry a basket with mud, sheep dung and rotten vegetable leaves, what, why don't you say there is no such configuration as eggs, just kidding, how expensive are eggs, even if they are reluctant to eat, they can be sold for money, no, where can they be used to smash the thief? Besides, the sheep dung and eggs can still be fertilized when they are bought in the field, and the sheep dung and eggs can be taken out is already a big deal, okay?

Just after noon, the prisoners were dragged from Jing Zhaoyin's prison into the prison cart, which went all the way through the bustling Dongshi, causing a huge commotion, and before they reached the execution site, the prisoner cart was already full of vegetable leaves and stones of various sizes.

When they arrived at Chunming Gate, the old scalper who pulled the cart was already a little struggling, because the prisoner cart was almost full.

Yuan Yingxin, who was originally weak and slender and graceful, had been smashed and covered with blood, but there was still a trace of light in her eyes that had not been extinguished.

She is the son of heaven, she has helped so many victims before, someone will definitely come to save her, even if the person with a face like a stone will take her away again! And King Lu, have you changed your mind?

His limbs were tied, Yuan Yingxin held his breath and waited for someone to come to the rescue.

However, there was no reversal of the situation, and she waited for her eyes to be open.

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In King Lu's Mansion, Li Jue originally wanted to go to supervise the beheading in person, but he changed his mind when it came to the end.

It's not because he can't do it, since he used human flesh to feed hunting dogs when he was young, how could he suddenly be timid at such an age, he can't go, it's really because the concubine died suddenly, and his power has begun to be uncontrollable.

He vaguely knew the strangeness of his mother's death, and there must be something else besides Yuan Yingxin, but in a hurry, he couldn't even stabilize the original situation, let alone find the real culprit.

Until this time, he didn't know that Yuan Yingxin had a close past with King Qi, and Yuan Yingxin even sold his privacy to Li Qi in order to gain Li Qi's trust.

Wang Yunfei looked at her husband, who had no ambition but few means, and sighed silently.

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On the contrary, the palace of the king of Qi became lively, but the king of Qi seemed to have no intention of being lively, he simply took the princess to the hot spring Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Beijing, and it seemed that he would not come back until New Year's Day.

The situation seemed to be very good for King Qi, and just when many people were secretly trying to contribute to King Qi and also mix up with the dragon's work, someone proposed to release the claustrophobic King Zhao.

One stone stirs up a thousand waves.

King Zhao, if it wasn't out of the previous file, King Zhao would indeed be the best candidate for the prince, if King Zhao was still there, where would there be King Lu and King Qi?

But after all, King Zhao was not so easy to be released.

On the one hand, most of the courtiers opposed the commutation of King Zhao's sentence and the lifting of claustrophobia, and on the other hand, the emperor held a funeral for the concubine as usual, and at the same time did not forget to favor the newcomers in the palace.

The successive pregnancies of He Baolin and Qiaocai Nu seem to have made him find his future goals again.

It doesn't matter if some sons die, it doesn't matter if the concubine dies, he is still young, and he can still give birth.

The emperor does not need to keep filial piety to his concubine, no matter how big the concubine is, she is also a concubine.

So, in less than half a month, there are five or six more talented people and beauties in the palace, and the most favored He Baolin has soared into the sky and become the third grade of Jieyu, except for the concubines who are already old and decrepit and have been awarded a high position early, among these newcomers later, Miao Jieyu has the highest rank.

The emperor had such an attitude, and some of the villains who studied asked the emperor to select good daughters from all over the country and serve in the palace, and some courtiers proposed that the emperor should be established after seeing it.

The good family has nothing to do with them, but if it is established, it will be different.

In this way, for a while, there was a bit of miasma in the court.

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In the hot spring village, Shen Qiutan leaned lazily on the edge of the pool, watching the snowflakes fall one after another.

Before I knew it, it was the end of the year again.

After getting dressed, she went to the study slowly, Li Qian was busy herself, and when she saw her coming, she put down her pen and reprimanded helplessly: "My hair hasn't dried yet, so I'm running around." ”

Just soaked in the hot spring, Shen Qiutan's cheeks were rosy and rich, and Shuli was even more usual: "It's the end of the year, are we going back?" ”

"You don't want to go back?"

Shen Qiutan nodded and shook his head.

It's good to go back and see my grandmother, but I have to deal with other people when I go back.

She didn't forget that as soon as Concubine He died, the threshold of the Qi Palace's Mansion was almost stepped on.

Now that it's the end of the year, I don't know how many banquets and posts are waiting.

Li Qian touched her half-dried hair and didn't speak.

Who knew that Shen Qiutan didn't want to go back to the palace at that time, so he changed his mind on the second day.

Because she received a letter from her grandmother saying that her uncle had returned.

The letter was simple, but Shen Qiutan still remembered the dream he once had, although Guangling was far away from the capital, it would not take months to make a round trip.

On the second day, the carriage of the royal palace entered Beijing.

Li Qi looked at Shen Qiutan's face and went to Chen's house first.

Shen Qiutan went straight to Uncle Chen and found that Uncle Chen was indeed injured, and there was a not too shallow scar on the left side of his face.

"Uncle, what happened? Your hurt ......"

Chen Derun waved his hand: "It's okay, I met a thief on the road, and he wanted to take my life regardless of 3721, but my uncle's life was big and he was saved." However, it took a lot of time to recuperate, so you were worried. ”

What he didn't say was that the thieves didn't just ambush once, but several times in succession, each time trying to take his life.

And every time there is a crisis, someone always comes out to each other.

He vaguely guessed that it was King Qi's person, and he became more and more respectful to King Qi, but he didn't want his niece to worry.

Tian saw Shen Qiutan and didn't see it, crying and crying and wanted to beg Shen Qiutan to call the shots, but Mrs. Chen saw that she was really not good, and she was busy dragging her daughter-in-law down.

After reading it, Shen Qiutan left the Chen family with a heavy heart.

In fact, even if my aunt doesn't mention it, she still has to investigate.

That night, the guards they had sent out to protect their uncle said back and forth: "The people who shot were extraordinary, and we lost two brothers, so they are definitely not ordinary thieves. ”

Shen Qiutan nodded, and became more and more puzzled, his uncle was a businessman, what was there to covet to help others, and he had to kill his uncle?

Li Qi beside her, her eyes sank slightly.

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